Improvement in hay-presses



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

IVILLIAM DEERING, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAY-PRESSES,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38.659, dated May 26, 1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DEERING, of the city of Louisville, State of Kentucky, have invented an Improvement in the Construction of Hay-Presses; and I declare the following specification, with the drawing accompanying and forming part' thereof, to be a full and complete description of my invention.

My improvement is intended to be applied to a form of hay-press largely in use i-n the State of New York and adjoining States, or any other press in which the follower is operated in an analogous way. 1

rIhe drawing represents one of these haypresses,with portions of the frame and hay-box removed to show its construction.

A is the frame; B, the hay-box; E, in dotted lines, its top; F, the follower; C, the main lever; D, the fulcrum-levers, a pair being one on each side of O. The fulcrum-levers are pivoted at d to the frame, and to the main lever at c, and the main lever is attached to the follower und-er its center at a. The power is applied at II by the rope or purchase J, in the direction J f, when as H progresses its upper end will rise, carrying the follower upward, compressing the inclosed hay between it and the top of the box B.

My improvement, which is essential to the smooth and economical working of the maupon the motive machinery, requiring a considerable expenditure of power to overcome its resistance. To relieve this tendency, I attach' to the opposite sides of the box vertical and parallel slides or guides M M, (from the nature of the drawing they can only be shown on one side,) and it the follower F to them by grooves g g, accurately out in its edges, or the vice versa of this arrangement bynaking grooves in the sides of the box and fitting pro- `jections in the edges ofthe follower to fit within them. In both cases friction-rollers may be applied to relieve friction of the parts.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I The guides or slides M M, with the grooves g g, incombination with the hay-box B and follower F, in the manner described, and for the purposes set forth in this specification.

VILLIAM DEERINGR Vitnesses:

J AMES A. MILLER, THEoDoRE SHARP.

chine, is shown at M M within the box B. The 

